Alex Rodriguez on Aaron Judge, Yankees vs. Dodgers, Shohei Ohtani | MLB | THE HERD

Alex Rodriguez on Aaron Judge, Yankees vs. Dodgers, Shohei Ohtani | MLB | THE HERD

the Yankees and Dodgers don’t even have like Garrett Cole’s not back Kershaw’s not there dominating teams they play this weekend A-Rod Alex Rodriguez 22 years in the sport Fox Sport joining us it is nuts so you’ve done this before um you’ve come to a team has a lot of pressure and there’s a lot of Otani goes to the Dodgers he’s got that thing he’s dealing with yet he’s been amazing stto goes with the Yankees a lot of pressure for soda they’re both just lighting it up are you surprised with the added pressure in big markets La New York both undeterred unbothered crushing it in your one hey Colin no I’m not surprised I mean these are two of uh the best athletes not only in baseball but in all of sports and the only sto comparison that I have is I remember in 92 or 93 when Barry Bonds arrived in San Francisco and forever he converted that franchise yeah uh you know for the next 10 or plus years is one of the places to be hottest ticket around and Juan sod is simply the best hitter in baseball playing for the best team for the number one market in baseball but there’s additional pressure because unlike Otani who has about a decade to go uh Plus in the Dodgers this is sto’s first year in New York and maybe his last and I think that adds an incredible amount of pressure to this season for the Yankees yeah Aaron judge is I mean I I’ve said this before he’s got almost a bab Ruth quality he does he looks like a defensive end in the NFL and if you look at the history of New York many of the most successful Stars Jeter Eli and Aaron judge they grow with the market they’re not Stars day one they grow with the market you came in as a star right you came in big did was there a moment with Aaron judge did you know four did you know four years ago three years ago did you know initially yeah that’s going to work that’s going to be a start did you see qualities early besides his obvious size what what you saw was was a young man that was 6’7 282 pounds uh you know less than 10% body fat and is an absolute specimen and how lucky are we that he chose baseball over football because he had Notre Dame Michigan Ohio State all coming after him and he’s a tremendous this tremendous young man he is like Derek Jeter uh there he’s a prototypical New York guy Madison Avenue likable great parents uh Educators all around his family uh you know he’s married to his Junior High sweetheart I mean Colin if you can just make up the perfect New York Madison Avenue player is Aaron judge this is the kind of player that George steinbrener would have just been madly in love with yeah it it’s is it is it hard he’s good-looking kid is it hard to stay out of I shouldn’t say trouble but it is there’s so many things in New York it’s just it’s one of those like La is different Alex La is so spread out you go to Malibu you hide from everybody New York you’re on an island it’s just Broadway Nicks Yankees it can did it were there times in New York where you felt like I’m just being engulfed by all this oh I mean New York’s the greatest city in the world um I tell you sometimes you feel like uh you’re in the middle of the circus and sometimes you feel like you’re the clown that everybody’s looking at it’s hard to get away with it to your point about La there’s a lot of ways where you can get away in New York uh there’s nowhere to run nowhere to hide I think one of the things that helped Aaron judge is number one I think the front office the coaching staff have done a tremendous job developing him uh he wasn’t rushed I thought getting to the big leags you know at the age of 24 25 where he was more mature healed and being in New York from day one gave gave them a Runway to really prepare for the bright lights of New York City and of course having tremendous parents and DNA this guy’s just a tremendous human being so yesterday we said just to give people an example of how stacked these teams are we took the Dodgers and the Yankees and we said if we did a batting order today mookie would lead off we’d play him at second this it’s so stacked when you combine these two that we had stto batting second Otani third Aaron Freddy Freeman John Carlos Stanton will Smith we got Max Muny at n who had 36 homers last year it is it is interesting to watch it are you concerned at all when you look at a team like the Dodgers or the Yankees that they could become home run dependent and historically Alex home run leaders don’t win the World Series it’s situational baseball it’s late inning pitching are you concerned at all that these teams are home run dependent uh no I’m not I was was totally concerned about the Yankees last year in whether were home run or bust uh there was a number of games where they had a lineup with nine right-handed hitters which is unheard of for the New York Yankees and their history um both these teams have complete opposite packages uh they can hit for power they can hit in a clutch they can hit good pitching uh they’re both very high on their walks so they have ego eye at the plate and they can beat you so many ways and look stto has completely changed the whole fabric of this team and you look at the the ripple effect in how well Aaron judge is playing uh vul’s developing and Stanton’s like a different guy because you have a righty Lefty righty dynamic in which you have a lot of favorable lineup matchups especially in the middle of the game when you when you face the belly of the uh opposition’s Bullpen so the Phillies and the Mets are in London Saturday 12:30 Eastern on Fox I’ve said this before I I don’t know what it is and I’ve never considered um baseball to be a HomeField Advantage although I did think old Yankee Stadium intimidated teams you get into late Innings it felt the ghosts it felt big it it was just rickety enough that it just it felt like it was just turbulent as the fans were going nuts but I watched Bryce Harper and I watched the Phillies and it does feel like they feed off they feed off their fans um your thoughts on as you look at Bryce Harper I think he’s delivered on all the hype I do I think he’s I think he’s a rockar I think he I think he connects with cities I think he’s productive at this point in his career how would you describe Bryce Harper’s Journey where he is currently in the Phillies he’s one of my favorite players I mean Bryce Harper simply is one of my favorite players uh not in this generation but in all generations he’s an old schooler I mean he’s a guy that could play with Pete Rose and Larry boa and Steve Carlton and in and many others in that generation but it’s hard to believe that this kid was in the cover of Sports Illustrated as a 15 or 16 year old Colin and you fast forward 15 years and he’s actually outperformed his incredible ceiling he’s been better than advertised and and there’s probably an a handful of people over the last 100 years that have had expectations that high whether that’s Kobe Bryant whether that’s LeBron James whether that’s the way that I came up as a first pick and he’s one of the few that’s been able to be better than advertised and he is truly I can’t believe I’m gonna say this underpaid uh and is a great great contract for the Philadelphia filies and he’s a perfect match for that great City and that great fan base so there’s three or four teams that can mash it the Yankees Dodgers have like really really good lineups but there is something that um there’s I I look at this because I used to look at this as a kid so I still look at it there’s a lot of teams hitting under like T 239 uh and then there’s a handful of teams and the Yankees Dodgers among them that are mashing it they can hit is this more about just I I don’t recall a time in my life where there were more six five guys throwing 101 is it just a matter of the athletes are bigger the sports more Global more guys throw hard we’re going to more relief pitchers so the guy in the fifth sixth seventh inning all throws 98 is it just symptomatic of what the sport is which is there’s so many great arms it takes an Aaron judge or a Freeman or a mookie to get hits consistently it’s just too hard anymore yeah but you know I think um the pendulum sometimes go way too far to the right and you’ve seen the Yankees that to oversimplify why the Yankees are one of the best team in baseball and last year they were one of the worst just look at their starting pitching starting pitching is back the top five teams in baseball they have the top five starting pitchers that can go long into games is not just I want to throw every pitch as hard as possible and if I pitch two and a third that’s quality start that’s a bunch of nonsense so that pendulum is kind of swinging back the other thing that the Yankees have done a tremendous job and this really a microcosm of what I think you’re going to see in the future is they’ brought back baseball players not just put the iPads away but bring the stick Michaels Jee Michael the great uh executive for Yankees for for many many years he like players that can hit from both sides of the plate that can make contact big strong athletes and then they brought back coaching baseball people back into that Dugout uh with Pat wrestler uh they brought back people that can teach the game and this is the best coaching staff the Yankees have had since the championship year in 2009 and I also think is one of the main reasons why they’ve turned it around um with all the stuff that Otani went through um he’s got such a unique personality uh I I I said before I kind of defended him I said you know he comes into another country he’s got language barriers he moves up the interstate angels to the Dodgers it his life is big he’s a rock star in two countries give this kid a break it is kind of fascinating in a weird way this is odd that he has a language barrier actually helps him because right like it does give him a buffer with the media a little bit but I am surprised that he wasn’t at least a little bit emotionally engulfed by what he went through are you a little surprised I I don’t think he’s guilty I don’t know but it’s he’s like not stubbed his toe for for I mean he’s on fire the guy’s amazing Colin look I mean look Otani is a national treasur there’s no question about it I just wish that when I went through all my controversy I was playing for the Tokyo Giants and now the New York Yankees that hurts um but look I think he handled it beautifully I thought Rob Manford and the league investigated quickly they got to an answer they were Resolute and they moved on and I could not think of what a disaster I would be if I was playing out in Brazil or playing for Tokyo or playing in Korea or playing anywhere it would just be very very challenging and the way he makes it look Colin it’s not only impressive but I’ve never seen anything like it yeah all right Alex Rodriguez three game series starts tomorrow Saturday Aton Fox London game Phillies Mets by the way it it’s it is interesting that in New York City one team loads up the lineup and they can handle the stress the Yankees last year the Mets did it and they folded like a deck chair there is something there’s a Vibe or a culture about the Mets how do you I mean the Padres last year had all these great players couldn’t handle it there is something I don’t know what it is about the Yankees and the Mets the pressure the Yankees tend to historically feed off it the Mets fold off it explain it to me I don’t get it well I I don’t know if there’s an explanation but certainly one team is they’re in two separate elevators one one is going to the penthouse the other one’s going to the basement and if you think about the year 2000 it was so crazy that they were both great they both went to the World Series and the subway series but that’s kind of an anomaly I do think that the Mets will reset I think Steve coin has tremendous resources he will put the right people in place but they got to think about rebuilding this team and the New York Yankees basically gave you a floor plan right on how to get it back and I think Soho is going to be a very pertinent conversation to be had uh this offseason I think Steve Cohen’s going to go for him very very aggressively um and that’ll be a two-fold win right if they can put them on the mats and take them away from the Yankees and then start building your team around great starting pitching Young starting pitching draft picks defense and athleticism and I think the Mets could be on track in the next few years Alex is always good seeing you appreciate you giving us time today thanks appreciate it hi everybody it’s me Uncle Colin subscribe here to get the latest from the herd including exclusive behind the scenes videos and more wherever you may be however you may be watching thanks again for making us part of your day

Aaron Judge has 21 HRs, which leads the AL and has him on pace to break his own record. Colin Cowherd and Alex Rodriguez discuss Judge’s record-setting pace, and previews Dodgers vs. Yankees, and Mets vs. Phillies. Plus, they analyze Shohei Ohtani’s first season so far as a Los Angeles Dodger.

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